Education
B.A. American University in Cairo, 1989
Ph.D. Arizona State University, 1996
Research Interests
Categorization, concept learning, dissociations and memory.
Courses Taught
PSYC 101: Introductory Psychology (team taught)
PSYC 221: Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 322: Concepts, Mind, Brain, & Culture
PSYC 401: Prospectives on Psychological Issues (team taught)
Selected Publications
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- Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. (in press) A high-distortion effect in the prototype-learning paradigm: Dramatic effect of catagory Learning During test.
- Nosofsky, R. M., Stanton, R. D., & Zaki, S. R. (2005). Procedural interference in perceptual classification: Implicit learning or cognitive complexity? Memory & Cognition, 33, 1256-1271.
- Zaki, S.R. (2005). Is categorization really intact in amnesia? A meta-analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 11, 1048–1054
- Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. M. (2004). False-prototype enhancement effects in dot-pattern categorization. Memory and Cognition. 32, 390-8.
- Zaki, S.R., Nosofsky, R.M., Stanton, R.D, and Cohen, A.L. (2003). Prototype and exemplar accounts of category learning and attention allocation: a reassessment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 29, 1160-1173
- Zaki, S. R., Nosofsky, R.M., Ramercad, R. & Unverzagt, F. (2003). Categorization and recognition performance in probable Alzheimer’s disease: Evidence for single-system models. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 9, 394-406.
- Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. M. (2001). Exemplar model accounts of typicality and blending. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 27, 1022-1041.
- Zaki, S.R. & Nosofsky, R. M. (2001). A single-system interpretation of dissociations between recognition and categorization in a task involving object-like stimuli. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience. 1, 344-359.
- Zaki, S.R. & Homa, D. (1999). Concepts and transformational knowledge. Cognitive Psychology, 39, 69-115.
- Nosofsky, R.M. & Zaki, S.R. (1998). Dissociations between categorization and recognition in amnesics and normal individuals: an exemplar-based interpretation. Psychological Science, 9, 247-255.